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by metalluk  - Top 100, Mar 05 '05
Pros: Magnificent music; great cinematic artistry in atmosphere, pacing, script, and performances
Cons: You'll need to have at least some basic appreciation for jazz for full enjoyment
Bertrand Tavernier's Round Midnight (1986) is not so much a movie as a complete work of art and a glowing tribute to the art of jazz. It transcends the confines of its medium to achieve a kind of lofty discourse on the nature of art. If there's ...
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by NFP , May 03 '04
Pros: Music, setting, screenplay, Dexter Gordon and Francois Cluzet, and the ensemble.
Cons: A tad long. Intentional slow pacing might bother some accustomed to adrenaline with their movies.
The Lush Life: Be-bop jazz conjures up images of clubs of old with clinking glasses, tinkling ice, blue lights in a haze of smoke, and the sweat of hot music, as in Billy Strayhorn’s standard song, Lush Life: ”I used to visit all ...
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by macresarf1 - Top 100, Aug 25 '00
Pros: Dexter Gordon, Herbie Hancock, Bobby McFerrin, direction by Bertrand Tavernier, production design by Alexander Trauner.
Cons: Watching the destruction of a talented artist, pretty close to the reality of Dexter Gordon.
ROUND MIDNIGHT (1986) is an unforgettable film about exile, and the struggle to keep the deepest and most original music of the 20th Century alive. The time is 1959, and in the typical fashion of American commercial art, the greatest living Jazz ...
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by xhua , Jul 10 '03
Pros: Affecting sweet story, great music, graceful and lovely "Long Tall Dexter".
Cons: Somewhat slowdown in some plots.
About The fading genius, his loneliness, his lose, his "life and love"(as what Dale talked with th ...
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